by Atul Hatwal
Years from now, politics students will be told jokingly by their tutors about the time the Labour leader had to U-turn and admit that a suicide bomber, who was about to blow himself up, should in fact be shot by the police.
It will be a salutary tale of what happens when an individual characterized by extremes of incompetence and ideology, is put in charge of a political party.
Many MPs think that the madness cannot continue. That Corbyn will fall in the next six months, or at the latest, after poll disaster in next year’s regional and local elections.
Sadly, they are wrong.
Before Corbyn falls, three changes are needed, none of which are immediate: the soft left need to wake-up to what’s happening, new terms of trade are required within Labour’s internal debate and a viable alternative leader must emerge.
Westminster Standard Time and Greenwich Mean Time are wholly different concepts.
In the political bubble, new notions become conventional wisdom within two or three turns of a super-accelerated Twitter fueled news cycle.
But what might seem suddenly eye-rollingly obvious in Westminster has barely registered outside.
